![]() ![]() One of my first jobs was using HTML/CSS framework to make grid based websites using the company’s CMS. One of the things I really don’t like about KDE’s look is the fact that a lot of things seem to be out of proportion. Before someone complain, I know that Scribus is a Qt app.Īs I said many times, the only thing missing for me is Autocad, the rest is just your or mine opinion anyway. ![]() Anyway, KDE reached a point where most of the users needs are well contemplated on default installs. Some KDE apps are top quality, like Digikam, Kate, KDevelop and Amarok (I prefer the old interface present on what was forked as Clementine). Yes, on MS camp you can find apps that are better than some of the ones that come with KDE and many top KDE apps are based on what were good apps for Windows/OSX (like K3b/Easy CD Creator 4, Scribus/Pagemaker, Dolphin/OSX Finder) and extended. Most of its native apps are very good and not crippled, far better situation than what we see by default on others DEs. ![]() KDE is not perfect, but it can be easily customized to my taste like no other DE can. Is the form restrictive on what first sight recognition they may transmit? Yes. Now we have icons with exactly same shape, like rounded, all over the places for what reason? Are them easier to spot? No. On windows front, well, their icons are far from what I could consider top quality and I really dislike the path they are “cruising” even though I agree that makes sense to have the spaces they are allocating on a touch system, but not on a desktop and even less a whole app alone on anything > 15″, that is pure nonsense.Īnyway, this talk about consistency throughout the system is a bit boring and overrated in my opinion. There are things I like on OSX, like monochrome icons on toolbars and the quality of their icons but all around the system there are inconsistencies here and there. Also, please, avoid any MS thing using the new ribbon, they are, to me, a bad joke, why I would sacrifice space on my screen to have them there “all the time”? On a text editor, I like to have most space free to read what I am on, on spreadsheets it also steal precious space, an on an on. May you please give us one example of good and consistent look for a file manager? Please, do not call it OSX finder as its scroll buttons are nothing but distracting and, in my opinion ugly. Sort of like vegan cakes and deserts… they look like the real thing but there’s something about them that gives them away, or feels wrong – but you can’t say wat it is. Maybe it’s the mouse pointer or the speed the mouse moves or the responsiveness of windows and widgets but it doesn’t feel to me like a real product, like there’s something wrong about it – something the ios and windows have that linux doesn’t. I think gnome 3 is better than kde and suits the way I work more… but compared to apple (which I don’t own – i’m no fanboi), or windows certain things about linux desktops are just not right… there is something about it I find odd… whether it is unity or any other DE. I mainly a windows user but use linux in VMs to run webservers and to develop in, but I have always found KDE to be gnomes ugly kid brother. I also don’t personally like the fodler sidebar fly out things – whatever they are called. The file manager is complete mess panels here there and everywhere with a sort of window within a window effect because of plastering panels and bars on all sides of the file/folder view thingy. I find that the icons looks tacky and are inconsistent (shape, form lighting) – too much like those horrible crystal icons that for whatever reason some people liked. Overall, I am very satisfied and pleased with all that is happening on KDE side of fence. Going to check how Kate progressed with Python but it was already quite good on my opinion. At least on openSUSE, there is no trace of Akonadi or Nepomuki running once you disable “Desktop Search”, what is goood (well, I actually stopped to test if they were there just collecting dust around kde 4.6 series so I can not say for sure what were their state on 4.8.x and 4.10.x but I think that one or other was there running as a daemon, even if doing nothing). I prefer Clementine.Ĭan not tell anything about Nepomuk as it is the first thing I disable whenever I install KDE. Hold on if you like Amarok, it is not ready yet. The new multi-monitor setting is really good (with KScreen you just drag to rearrange the relative positions). It feels a bit faster, uses less memory for what I tested, the task-manager applications bug (leaving empty spaces on it or not listing applications, very rare) seems to be gone. ![]()
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